Atari History Fanatics

from the to-each-his-or-her-own dept

Fri, Apr 9th 1999 5:37pm — Mike Masnick

The Village Voice has an article about a completely fanatical "Atari historian". This is interesting to me (and probably no one else) as my first computer was an Atari 800 that I used for many many many years. In a world where cool geeks all started out with TI's or Apple's, I had my reliable 800 (which is why I turned out to be such a lame geek). Ah... computing nostalgia.

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Jon Acheson, 12 Apr 1999 @ 10:31am

I was a teenage Atari user
My first computer was an Atari 800xl. I loved that thing, too bad the storage media were so undependable back then. I'd love to have the code I slaved over for weeks back then, just to fire up on an emulator. Sigh.

Jon Acheson
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Cynthia Segura, 30 Sep 2009 @ 8:05am

Hello
Hi I still have my Atari de black one with so many games, but doesnt work anymore and some of the games u cant see the name but theres one that I liked to play a lot with my brother but I dont remember the name, was a little boy jumping a lot of bridges and rivers and there was a particular music, can someone tell me the name of the game please, Im Cindy and Im 24. I know the Atari cames before I was born but that Atari was from my older cousins and they gave it to me when I was 4.
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